I think that "volunteer to care" was the crucial phrase with focus on the word 'care'. Now perhaps I read it the wrong way and I apologise if I did but Andreas has been very anti-Windows in the past. Perhaps the word 'ignorant' is slighty harsh. I still feel there is a lot of anti-Windows feeling and whilst I don't prefer the platform I feel it should be well supported. Perhaps Enfold could help with Zope Windows builds as they have done with Plone Windows builds which are fantastic? I have occasionally attempted to install separate Zope instances on Windows and have achieved that but obviously installers are the ultimate for exposure.

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1>>> On 11 Oct 2006, at 17:14, michael nt milne wrote:>>> ">> The windows builds will be available as soon as someone volunteer to care
>> about the Windows platform.>>>> ">>>> ignorant thinking. Most businesses use Windows and Zope will suffer>> unless it is embraced.>> Who do you think you are insulting people who actually invest a lot of
> their spare time in the software and in the community? You being an> annoying troll is helping no one, and it certainly won't get Windows> builds done.

Haha, just add him to your email blacklist, saves a lot of trouble ;-)

For the record, the releases are not available because no-one is capablerather than motivated to produce them.

Having built a couple, Windows releases are a royal PITA even ifeverything goes smoothly...

Now Michael, unless you're prepared to build these releases yourself, Iless than politely suggest you STFU...

Chris

PS: For the non-trolls on this list, I believe Sidnei da Silva isthinking about taking up this painful task... send him beer/love/money
and he might be further persuaded...

PPS: We all might also like to thank Tim Peters for doing such a goodjob of building Windows releases in the past that no-one noticed thedelay between the source and binary release...
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